This Day in History
Today: February 24, 2026
484
King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.[1]
1303
The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.[2]
1386
King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.[3]
1525
A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia.[4]
1527
Coronation of Ferdinand I as the king of Bohemia in Prague.[5]
1538
Treaty of Nagyvárad between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and King John Zápolya of Hungary and Croatia.[6]
1582
With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.[7]
1597
The last battle of the Cudgel War takes place on the Santavuori Hill in Ilmajoki, Ostrobothnia.[8]
1607
L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.[9]
1711
Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, is premièred.[10]
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